²³ And his wife saith to him, `If Jehovah were desirous to put us to death, He had not received from our hands burnt-offering and present, nor shewed us all these things, nor as `at this' time caused us to hear `anything' like this.'

¹⁴ The secret of Jehovah `is' for those fearing Him, And His covenant -- to cause them to know.

²¹ and an eye is not able to say to the hand, `I have no need of thee;' nor again the head to the feet, `I have no need of you.'

¹⁵ no more do I call you servants, because the servant hath not known what his lord doth, and you I have called friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I did make known to you.

²³ Jesus answered and said to him, `If any one may love me, my word he will keep, and my Father will love him, and unto him we will come, and abode with him we will make;

²⁰ in that day ye shall know that I `am' in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you;

⁹ The two `are' better than the one, in that they have a good reward by their labour.

¹⁰ For if they fall, the one raiseth up his companion, but wo to the one who falleth and there is not a second to raise him up!

³² For an abomination to Jehovah `is' the perverted, And with the upright `is' His secret counsel.

¹⁷ Do with me a sign for good, And those hating me see and are ashamed, For Thou, O Jehovah, hast helped me, Yea, Thou hast comforted me!

¹³ I had not believed to look on the goodness of Jehovah In the land of the living!

⁴ and Abel, he hath brought, he also, from the female firstlings of his flock, even from their fat ones; and Jehovah looketh unto Abel and unto his present,

⁵ and unto Cain and unto his present He hath not looked; and it is very displeasing to Cain, and his countenance is fallen.